Nothobranchius palmqvisti

Nothobranchius palmqvisti is a species of killifish in the family Nothobranchiidae. It is found in Kenya and Tanzania. Its natural habitats are swamps and intermittent freshwater marshes.[2] This species was described as Fundulus palmqvisti by Einar Lönnberg in 1907 with the type locality being Tanga in the Usambara Mountains of north eastern Tanzania, the type being collected on the 1905-06 Sjöstedts Kilimandjaro-Meru Expedition.[3] The specific name honours the patron of that expedition, Gustaf Palmqvist.[4]

Nothobranchius palmqvisti
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cyprinodontiformes
Family: Nothobranchiidae
Genus: Nothobranchius
Species:
N. palmqvisti
Binomial name
Nothobranchius palmqvisti
(Lönnberg, 1907)
Synonyms[2]
  • Fundulus palmqvisti Lönnberg, 1907
  • Fundulopanchax palmquisti (Lönnberg, 1907)
  • Nothobranchius palmquisti (Lönnberg, 1907)

References
  1. Nagy, B. & Watters, B. (2019). "Nothobranchius palmqvisti". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2019: e.T60430A47188686.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Nothobranchius palmqvisti" in FishBase. April 2019 version.
  3. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Fundulus palmqvisti". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
  4. Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (31 May 2019). "Order CYPRINODONTIFORMES: Families APLOCHEILIDAE and NOTHOBRANCHIIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 8 September 2019.


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